Doughty said government agency recommendations to have social media companies remove perceived misinformation regarding vaccine ham

You are arguing copyright and public domain. If everything worked that way, Disney wouldn’t exist, ironically enough.

Yup. If you refuse to sell something to me, I’m going to pirate it. This applies to everything, not just games. HBO/Disney/whoever removes a show or movie from their service, and doesn’t sell it anywhere else? Guarantee it’ll be available through piracy.

IMO if a game is no longer being sold then having an archived version (ROM) and redistributing it for free should pose no problem. Zero profits are being lost. And if this pushes companies to rerelease games on their own emulated device, then the title is still preserved. 

I am definitely not changing my opinion of Zuck and his crap just because someone else managed to dig themselves an even deeper feces filled hole. Wouldn’t touch Threads if they literally paid me.

I bet the Saudis are quite happy. I believe they are buying up the Twitter debt cheap on the secondary market so it isn’t really costing them much and they get to influence American Social Media which can be a very powerful tool. That’s what they really want. Maybe they will use that foot in the door to buy Tribune…

Musk proposed “a literal dick measuring contest.”

“I’d totally kick your ass but my mom said no.”

I’m picturing an army of Musk fans materializing to form a giant pile and break his fall, while saying he’s a genius for finally disproving the theory of gravity.

plaintiffs asked ChatGPT to recite excerpts from Silverman’s book The Bedwetter, to which it relayed passages from the memoir verbatim.

The thing is, that’s not how “AI” works. It’s just machine learning, so it can only create based on the input it’s given. AI’s aren’t thinking critically and reinterpreting what they’ve consumed, they’re essentially just parroting back the information they’ve consumed. It’s essentially plagiarism. When you write a…

This from the guy whose mommy had to help get him out of a fight...

There’s something Shakespearean about Musk. He for years paid people to cultivate the image of him as a “maverick innovator” buying him guest spots on SNL, the Simpsons, Star Trek, etc. The PR people running this campaign for him knew well that “the less you see and hear from him the better” as he’d immediately…

While both OpenAI and Meta make mention that they do not train on copyrighted material... In an exhibit from the author’s lawsuit, the plaintiffs asked ChatGPT to recite excerpts from Silverman’s book The Bedwetter, to which it relayed passages from the memoir verbatim.

Everyone trolling Musk over this - and then Musk calling Zuck a “Cuck” about it (that was real, right?) - has been splendiferous to behold.

Basically, in addition to all its other faults, Batman v. Superman picked the wrong tech billionaire to model its Lex Luthor on.

It is truly a bizarre set of events that has occurred that makes Mark Zuckerberg the more likable of two alternatives.  He’s weird and off-putting, sure, but he’s not “the world’s most divorced man”, “the world’s tenderest billionaire”, or “someone who spends all day chasing clout from the alt-right teens.”

That’s all true, but it’s also worth mentioning that typically for parodies, it’s clear from their marketing that they are mocking their subject matter. See the Zuckers/Abrahams classics, for example, or much of Mel Brooks’ work. The trailer for The People’s Joker doesn’t look like it’s doing much parodic work.…

This isn’t parody. It’s infringement.
It’s not protected under the the First Amendment, you Americans say the stupidest shit. 

It would be parody if it featured characters like “Catman” and “the Jokester”. This is just unauthorized use.